Posts Tagged as ‘budget’

June 24, 2009

Poor Arent Lifeless Bricks

India is a poor country. As per world bank reports there are about 450 million people living below world poverty line. (less than $1.25 or Rs 62.5 per day). Over all the World Human Development Index HDI report keeps India in the company of Sub saharan countries. We are with countries like Solomon Islands, Lao [...]

June 23, 2009

The union budget: A primer from a non expert.

Because this was en election year only an interim budget was presented by Pranab Mhukharjee this April. Now that a stable government is in place, he is expected to present the final budget.
Like most of the people even I thought that budget and it’s impact on my life is insignificant. Even the tax exemption levels [...]

February 18, 2008

7 things I wish to see in budget

With all people speculating about what the FM is going to propose which is probably the last budget before the government faces an election, even I would like to present my take on it. Often government’s performance depends a lot on the budget it places just before the elections.
The FM has two choices either vouch [...]